Improvement in apparatus for transmitting power and motion



0. L HENRIGH. Apparatus for Transmitting Power and Motion.

No. 206,018. Patented luly16, 1878.

"15588 PHOTO-UTHQGRAPMER. WASHINGTON, D c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL L. HENRICH, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING POWER AND MOTION.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,018, dated July 16,1 79; application filed February 12, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL L. HENRICH, of the city and county of SanFrancisco, in the State of California, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Apparatus for Transmitting Power and Motion, whichinvention is fully set forth and described in the followingspecification and accompanying drawing.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myinvention; and Fig. 2 is a front elevation, partly in section.

The object of my invention is to provide a means for transmitting poweror motion from an engine or motor to any desired distance without theuse of belts, rods, walking-beams, or other like mechanism, and also forchanging the velocity of the motion so transmitted without the aid ofgearing.

To this end my invention consists in the employment of a continuouscircuit or body of water inclosed within connect-ingsections ofwater-tight pipes, and having pistons located within straight sectionsof the circuitpipe at the upper and lower portions, respectively, of thecircuit, whereby on motion being given to either the upper or the lowerpiston the same will be transmitted by means of the confined body ofwater to the other piston, and a like motion of the second piston willtake place, the speed of the two pistons being governed by the relativesize of the two straight sections of pipe with each other, all whichwill be fully set forth hereinafter.

Referring to the drawing for a better understanding of the nature ofmy.invention, Fig. 1 shows an elevation of my apparatus, which iscomposed of two straight sections of water-tight pipe, A A, havingpistons B B situated and moving therein, and two connecting-sections, CC, which complete the circuit and form a continuous solid body or columnof water, separated into two halves or portions by the pistons B B inthe straight sections.

The pistons B B are secured to a rod or rods, D D I) D, which workthrough suitable stuffing-boxes d d d d at the ends of the straightsections of pipe. The section A is connected with water-reservoirs E E,for supplying water to the pipes, and keeping them properly filled witha solid body of water.

These reservoirs may be situated at any proper distance from the pipes,and connected therewith by means of pipes or conducting-tubes, havingstop-cocks for controlling the supply of water and admitting it in therequired quantities to the pipes as needed to supply the place of thatlost by evaporation or leakage.

As thus constructed, the apparatus is filled with water from thereservoirs E, and when the pipes and connections are entirely filledwith a solid body of water the stop-cocks are closed, and, on powerbeing applied to the rod B of one piston to move it within the straightpipe at the upper part of the circuit, the other piston at the oppositeend of the circuit will be moved within its pipe with the same velocity.The column of water is divided by the pistons into two equal portions,counterbalancing each other, and the power applied to move theworking-piston has nothing to overcome but the friction of the waterwithin the pipes.

By changing the relative sizes of the two cylinders or straight portionsA A of the pipes, the relative velocities of the driving and the workingpistons can be varied as desired, for the ratio of the velocity of thepistons is as the reverse of the ratio of the squares of the diameters.Therefore by increasing the diameter of the pipe of the working-piston Bthe quick motion of the motor-engine imparted to the driving-piston willbe transmitted with a reduced velocity to the piston B connected withthe machine to be worked. The motion may be thus transmitted and changedin velocity without the use of any gearing.

The advantage of my invention is its adaptability to transmit power andmotion to any required distance from the motor-engines wit-hout the useof rods, belts, shafting, walkingbeams, and like mechanism, and toregulate the speed without the use of gearing.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with the circuit of waterpipes A A C C, the pistons BB, reciprocating alternately in the pipes A A, and the piston-rods D D,one of which is adapted for connection with the power and the other withthe machinery to be driven, substantially as described and shown.

2. In combination with the circuit of pipes A A G G, to hold a solidbody or column of water, and the pistons B B, with their rods 1) I),dividing the circuit into two halves or portions, the reservoirs E E,with their connecting-pipes and stop-cocks, constructed and arranged tooperate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand andseal this 24th day of December 1877.

CARL L. IIEJRIOII. [L. s.]

\Vitnesses:

(I. W. M. SMITH, E. Y. SUTTER.

